Internet Outages Opportunities
Lifehacker lists things you can do when the Internet is down. But the average reader will bookmark the article to “read it later” and will not be able when he needs it the most :)You should follow me...
View ArticleTwitter Top 100
Instead of following the 100 most popular people on Twiter, just keep this page open on a tab and hit refresh. Actually following them on Twitter will cause you to lose your sanity.You should follow me...
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How Does the Internet See You?
Personas tells you how the Internet sees you. Try out your persona.A big jumbling mess. But those who read this blog and follow me elsewhere will not be surprised.Wait a minute? Illegal? What have my...
View ArticleNCERT Textbooks Online
This is fantastic. NCERT textbooks are now online for classes 1 through 12 and for almost all subjects [HT;via Nimbupani]. I love the history textbooks which are one of the best in India. I studied...
View ArticleIndiCast turns 100
IndiCast has turned 100. Rather Aditya and Abhishek have published their 100th podcast…in video format. They talk about a variety of topics like Harleys, Kasab, the austerity drive, and women &...
View ArticleUnderstanding Twitter @Replies Behavior
In order to reduce clutter, Twitter changed their @replies behavior such that if you are following X and X @replies to Y, you will not see that reply unless you too are following Y. Thus, you are...
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Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World
[click to enlarge] The United States is only 15th in the world and unfortunately, India doesn’t even figure in the list [source].You should follow me on Twitter: @patrix. Full-content RSS feed. For...
View ArticleRedefining Retweeting
The design is simple: There’s a retweet link by each tweet and, with two clicks, it will be sent on to your followers. This takes care of the mangled and messy problem because no one gets an...
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Pinboard – Bookmarking Service
I uninstalled my Delicious add-on in Firefox today but I’m still bookmarking more than ever. In fact, I’ve made sharing links an integral part of this blog now. I’m using a brand new service, Pinboard...
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The Buzz around Google Buzz
Google entered the world of status updates and friends-followers when it introduced its GMail-enabled platform, Google Buzz for social networking. If you are a GMail user, the service was turned on for...
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Background Checks and Dating
As seen at Sweet Eugunes’, a coffee shop in College Station, TX. Perfectly captures the dilemma between hard-to-resist urge to run Internet background checks on your date and the joy of slowly...
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Fixing Mint’s Wrong Budget Counts
I have been using Mint for compiling and analyzing my financial history for the past couple of years. It is an amazing product and completely online. It syncs to your bank accounts, credit cards, and...
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The End of Delicious
In a leaked internal presentation slide, Yahoo put Delicious, the popular bookmarking service in the Sunset column. This started an online fire yesterday leading everyone to believe that the much-loved...
View ArticleReading Overload
The more you know, the less you need – Yvon ChouinardSometimes, I’m tired from the myriad options available on the Internet to read. This video [via] perfectly exemplifies the dilemma most of us suffer...
View ArticleWhy Google Is Wrong to Kill Off Google Reader
For one thing, Reader is only sort of a social network. In many senses it’s an anti-social network. Not in the sense that people in Reader are anti-social so much as the point is to harbor a small...
View ArticleCutting the Cord
We cancelled our cable service this week. We don’t have a hipster-esque reason for belonging to the Cord Cutter Club but simply because it was getting too expensive for something we rarely used....
View ArticleMegaupload shut down
One of the largest file-hosting site, Megaupload was abruptly shut down by U.S. officials. Technically, it was not a ‘sharing’ site or as we have come to understand ‘sharing’ over the Internet since a...
View ArticleReddit: Web’s unstoppable force
How the site went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force.I admit that I have a Reddit addiction too; especially the awesome AskReddit sub-reddit.[Source: Slate Magazine]You should...
View ArticleFor Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches
The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network’s first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected...
View ArticleNew Symbols for Content Aggregation Online
The Curator’s Code will use a symbol resembling a sideways S to express that a piece of content came directly from another source, and a different figure — a curved arrow-like symbol — to signal what...
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